[154665] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Changer items
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Jul 7 13:32:11 2012
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:31:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4FF7251A.2040003@rollernet.us>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Seth Mattinen" <sethm@rollernet.us>
> > On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:20:55 -0400, Andrew Fried said:
> >> The dns-ok.us site is getting crushed from all the sudden media
> >> interest.
> >
> > One wonders why it's so hard to get the media interested when it
> > would be *helpful*. DNS Changer gets traction like 3 days before the
> > drop dead date, IPv6 gets on the radar *after* we run out of v4 /8's
> > to give to regionals, etc...
>
> Reactive is easier to justify to the powers that be than proactive.
It's easier to justify *not* being smart enough to deal with the problem
when it doesn't cause a major disruption?
Have we venerated stupidity *that deeply* in the US?
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
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